Todd Terry
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Why would you want to use specialty vintage-style bulbs?? If you want to try tungsten bulbs, just use regular ol’ bulbs from the hardware store. They’ll give much more uniform light, probably a slightly lower color temperature, and will be a great great deal cheaper.
When I said “Edison” before that was just referring to the size and type of socket… I didnt mean actual vintage style Edison bulbs.
You could also try the screw-in household LED bulbs that have an Edison base, which would be much cooler…but i cant guarantee they wont flicker.
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Those are just plain ol’ Edison screw-in sockets… so in a pinch you could just put tungsten blubs in them, which would be continuous.
I’d just be careful about it though, while the flo blubs get a little warm, the tungsten bulbs get hot, and the softbox might not be made to withstand hot lamps… so I’d go with as minimal a wattage as you can get away with, keep a close eye on it, and never leave them on unattended even for a second. Not the best solution of course (and you definitely don’t want a fire), but it’d work. You could put tungsten bulbs in them and test it for a little while outdoors where there’s no danger.
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Duh on me… I looked at the ad again, I didn’t even notice before the small pictures beside the real one.
Note the one where you can see inside the softbox. Those are very definitely and without question flos. Looks like just a standard spiral compact fluorescent bulb (although of higher wattage than you usually would buy for, say, home use).
Combining that with your DSLR is the troublesome combo, I’d bet the farm on it.
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They’re throwing around the word “continuous” in a different way than we’ve been talking about it here. They just mean they are not strobes that flash. That doesn’t mean they are true continuous lights.
That Amazon listing is very light on exact specs…. but based on the fact that the instruments are dirt cheap and that they are listed at 80 watts and plug directly into AC power, then I guarantee you that they are flos, and that very likely is your problem.
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“If you scrub through, it brightens and darkens at points.”
Is it uniform and regular?… as in, does the brightness hit its peak at uniform intervals, such as every five or eight seconds or so, exactly the same over and over? If you speed up a clip where this occurs it is often more evident… something that looks fine at normal speed will show brightness differences when played back at, oh, 800%, or when scrubbed through.
If that change is precisely uniform, that’s the phasing I was talking about in the post above. In that case you need to change the light source to a continuous source, or shoot with a camera that has a clearscan mode.
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Todd Terry
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I’m directing on location today and not where I can download the footage to view, but I’ll throw this out there….
What kind of lamps are in your two instruments?
If they are fluorescent bulbs, that might be the culprit.
Bulbs like halogen and tungsten bulbs are continuous… the hot filament still glows between power cycles and the light is constant. But many other types of light… flos, HMIs, etc…. are not continuous… they actually quickly flicker along with the 60Hz cycle of the power. If this is not in synch with your camera shutter, you will get troubles. It can be anywhere from a rapid flickering to a slow phasing over a several second period.
I’m not saying that’s your issue, but if it is then you need to shoot with a shutter speed that is exactly the same as the AC power source. This requires a camera with a shutter mode usually known as “clear scan,” when you dial in the exact correct shutter speed… so instead of setting it at 1/48th or 1/60th, it’s more like 59.043 or 60.849 or whatever.
I don’t use DSLRs to shoot video, but I’m doubting that’s something your Canon will do. You’ll need a proper (and higher end) video camera to do that. Or the easier/cheaper fix… use continuous lighting… e.g. tungsten, halogen, or LED (note that most but not all LEDs are flicker free these days. Any that operate on batteries will be, but AC powered ones might flicker, especially ones that do not use a transformer to step the juice down to 12V DC).
On another note… I too shoot 24p almost exclusively. I’ve never had a monitor flicker, whether it be a high-end “real” monitor, LCD, LED, CRT, or just the cheap 12V LCD TV that we sometimes use.
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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For what it’s worth I finally did just get this from a DJI tech guy, fortunately a US-based one…
All of the following approved lenses for the Zenmuse X5 take standard 46mm filters.
DJI MFT 15mm f/1.7 ASPH
Panasonic Lumix 15mm f/1.7
Olympus M. ED 12mm f/2.0
Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm f/1.8
Olympus M.Zuiko ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 EZ
Olympus M.Zuiko 25mm f1.8
Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm f1.8T2
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Todd Terry
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fantasticplastic.com
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Yeah, I see it does list some 46mm filters as “frequently bought together,” which is a good indication. I do wish they’d give me the real specs in the actual item description before I went and bought a bunch of filters. It’s probably a good enough indication that it is 46mm, I guess I could send them back if not right.
Thanks….
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[John Newman] “Fans who want to drink or eat the same food as their idol is a huge power. Isn’t it?”
Huge power? Just a personal opinion of course, but as for myself I’d put very little value on that.
Unless you just have money to burn I’d sure think marketing dollars would be much better spent elsewhere.
And… still thinking the OP is likely spam.
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Todd Terry
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Also… I suspect the OP might be spam and just a plug for “Celebrity Connected” since this was a new-member signup just for this posting (not that they always are in this situation, but certainly often).
My observations, though, stand.
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